Indeed, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that hospital consolidation in the 1990s drove up inpatient prices 5%.
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So he applied for small grants from philanthropies like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Merck Foundation.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is going to serve as an independent evaluator as these companies work towards their goals.
The dramatic impact reported in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Open Notes demand the attention of any forward-looking healthcare leader.
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The graphic from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation expands on the findings of this groundbreaking study that will have a massive downstream impact.
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Sponsors of the issue included two long-time donors to health care do-goodism, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation.
In 1995, a group of researchers funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published a shocking result in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
According to the most recent report by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mississippi had the nation's highest rate of obesity.
Eighty-give percent of physicians say that unmet social needs lead to worse health outcomes, according to a new survey sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Advocates and nonprofit leaders include National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is interested in health policy.
The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (part of the National Institutes of Health) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Steven Schroeder, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, reckons that doctors have lost their central role in the health-care debate largely because they spent their time on the wrong issue.
It is the result of contributions by researchers at Resources for the Future, the University of Chicago, the National Institutes of Health, and Emory University, and was funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Administrative costs for physicians are in the range of 25-30 percent of practice revenues and insurance-related costs are 15 percent of revenues, according to a National Academy of Social Insurance report for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Our research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that although the total number of meals served fell 1.6% from 2006 to 2011, servings of lower-calorie items grew 2.5%, while the number of higher-calorie servings fell 4.2%.
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According to a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, when given the opportunity to review their medical notes, the majority of patients at three health systems reported a better understanding of their health conditions, felt more in-control of their care and had an improved doctor-patient relationship.
Janet Novack writes in a recent blog post that Baby Boomers are in for a health shock and she quotes a recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that found there is a disconnect with how pre-retirees estimate their health in retirement, with only 13% predicting their health will decline but 39% of retirees report their health is actually worse in retirement.
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